Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Frances O’Brien, Bryan Edwards and John Morecroft for their support and objectivity during the discussions that contributed to this Viewpoint.
Notes
1 The American billion, 1 × 109, a British milliard, is used throughout.
2 I would not have dared to parody the technology lobby so absurdly, had this view not been expressed, in almost exactly these terms, by a speaker for a UK ‘think tank’ in a climate change debate on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.